Criminal neglect--that's what the Bush administration is guilty of in not heeding the loud warnings of the CIA about the coming al-Quaeda attacks in 2001. It's no wonder the current GOP does not want to parade these guys before the public. A strong case could be made that they should be prosecuted for both their neglect of national security AND their pre-emptive lauching of a war on false pretenses against Iraq. Yet Romney listens to advisers of this same neocon ilk, many of them holdovers from the Bush years like the belligerent John Bolton. He is just itching to get us into a war against Iran but I am sure he has told Bibi this can happen only AFTER he has secured more tax cuts for the rich and gutted Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.
J.W. Williamson was the founding editor in 1972 of the Appalachian Journal: A Regional Studies Review, which he edited until July of 2000. He has taught college classes in Appalachian history, cultural politics, and literature, and he has lectured widely on the pop-culture history of "Appalachia" in the American consciousness. His books include Interviewing Appalachia, Southern Mountaineers in Silent Films, and Hillbillyland: What the Mountains Did to the Movies and What the Movies Did to the Mountains. He has won the Thomas Wolfe Award given by the Western North Carolina Historical Society, the Laurel Leaves Award given by the Appalachian Consortium, a special Weatherford Award given by Berea College, and the Cratis Williams-James Brown Award given by the Appalachian Studies Association.
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Criminal neglect--that's what the Bush administration is guilty of in not heeding the loud warnings of the CIA about the coming al-Quaeda attacks in 2001. It's no wonder the current GOP does not want to parade these guys before the public. A strong case could be made that they should be prosecuted for both their neglect of national security AND their pre-emptive lauching of a war on false pretenses against Iraq. Yet Romney listens to advisers of this same neocon ilk, many of them holdovers from the Bush years like the belligerent John Bolton. He is just itching to get us into a war against Iran but I am sure he has told Bibi this can happen only AFTER he has secured more tax cuts for the rich and gutted Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.
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